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One million dollar diamond to be auctioned in Vancouver
An emerald cut diamond valued between $900,000 and $1 million is set to be auctioned in Vancouver on Sunday at the Sutton Place Hotel.
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China has invested $14 billion in the oil sands, and that’s a good thing
MINING.com Editor | February 22, 2012A think tank is pushing back against the perception that Chinese firms are locking up Canadian resources, but rather are providing an important financial boost to the sector.
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Grizzly finds potash in Alberta, investors find somewhere else to put their money
MINING.com News | February 21, 2012
On much heavier volumes than usual Grizzly Discoveries shed 3c or 6.52% by midday Tuesday. Before the market open the Edmonton-based company announced a potash discovery near Medicine Hat in Alberta Canada that wasn’t as exciting as investors had clearly hoped – drilling yielded potash grades up to 31.1% K2O, but only over 0.3 metres.
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Concerned Canadian unions say BC government is leaving coal in China’s hands
Cecilia Jamasmie | February 21, 2012
In unveiling Canada’s British Columbia’s job-creation strategy last September, the Premier Christy Clark said the government planed to capitalize on high demand for minerals, especially in Asia, by opening up eight new mines in the next four years and expanding nine more by 2015.
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NovaGold to spin-out Ambler Project into NovaCopper
Cecilia Jamasmie | February 21, 2012NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX:NG)(NYSE Amex:NG) provided an update on the previously announced spin-out transaction of NovaCopper, a wholly-owned subsidiary, which holds NovaGold’s interest in the Ambler project located in Alaska, U.S.
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Gold exploration in Nunavut gets a boost
Cecilia Jamasmie | February 21, 2012Toronto and New York-listed gold producer Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) has received permission from the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) to move ahead with an all-weather access road to its Meliadine exploration gold project.
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Canadian ‘mining watchdog’ spent $1.1M taxpayer dollars and has nothing to show for it
Andrew Topf | February 20, 2012
A Canadian mining watchdog created by the Conservative government has yet to mediate a single case despite costing taxpayers $1.1 million over the last two years.
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Regional District Opposes Enbridge Gateway Pipeline; Passes Resolution Calling for Legislated Ban on Oil Tanker Traffic in BC’s Northern Coastal Waters
Marketwire | February 20, 2012The Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District, which provides local government services to four electoral areas and five municipalities with 20,000 residents living on the North Coast of British Columbia and Haida Gwaii, has passed a resolution opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil tanker and pipeline project.
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75 per cent of Keystone XL pipe would be ‘Made in North America’
Marketwire | February 20, 2012TransCanada Corporation (TSX, NYSE: TRP) (TransCanada) confirmed today the vast majority of the pipe for Keystone XL would be manufactured in North America.
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Who’re you calling dirty? Canada says would take Europe to WTO over oil sands
Frik Els | February 20, 2012
Canada is upset about an EU energy panel’s plans for a green ranking of fuels that would rank Alberta’s heavy oil as the globe’s most polluting and effectively ban the import of oil sands crude into the bloc.
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Iron Creek & Hochschild Mining discover “exotic” copper mineralization, Victoria Joint Venture
PR Newswire: Mining | February 20, 2012Iron Creek Capital Corp. (TSX-V: IRN) is pleased to provide an exploration update on recent work completed by Hochschild Mining Holdings Limited (HOC.L: “Hochschild”), the operators of the Victoria Joint Venture project.
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Coal trumps oilsands as climate change culprit
Andrew Topf | February 19, 2012
Emissions from Canada’s oilsands are unlikely to make a large contribution to global warming compared to the burning of coal, says a leading climate change researcher.
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Enbridge considering Prince Rupert for Northern Gateway terminus
Andrew Topf | February 19, 2012
As hearings into the Northern Gateway pipeline continue, Enbridge, the company behind the $5.5 billion project to transport oilsands crude 1,170 kilometres from Brudenheim, Alberta to a new marine terminal in Kitimat, says it would consider moving the pipeline terminus to another location further north.
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Sunshine Oilsands begins offering shares in $605 million IPO
BusinessWeek | February 19, 2012Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. will tomorrow begin offering shares in an initial public offering to raise as much as HK$4.69 billion ($605 million), the holder of Canadian oil-sand leases said.
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Yellowhead expands Harper Creek estimate
Canadian Mining Journal : Headline News | February 17, 2012Vancouver-based Yellowhead Mining has updated the 43-101 estimate for its Harper Creek copper project north of Kamloops.
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Carlisle Goldfields Limited: Exploration of MacLellan Mine Project Continues to Deliver Positive Results
Marketwire - Mining and Metals | February 17, 2012Carlisle Goldfields Limited (TSX:CGJ) (the “Company” or “Carlisle”) announces further assay results from the MacLellan Mine Project in Northwest Manitoba near the Town of Lynn Lake where the Company has completed a 45,000 metre diamond drilling program.
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